Following the sanctions announced by Washington targeting Russian media and the prosecutions initiated by the US Department of Justice against two executives of the Russian state channel Russia Today (RT), the Kremlin, in turn, promised restrictions on American media in Russia on Friday, September 6, without going into details.
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There Russia has decided to crack down in turn, following a series of measures announced on September 4 by the American authorities against Russian media, including the public television channel RT. The spokesman for the Russian presidency confirmed this on Friday, September 6, to the state agency Ria Novosti.
According to Dmitry Peskov, if the UNITED STATES do not have – according to him – a state news agency or a television channel, which prevents the implementation of mirror measures, restrictions on the broadcasting of American media will be adopted. And this even if, for the moment, these measures have not yet been detailed. The sanctions announced by Washington were in response to attempts to interfere in the American presidential election.
For its part, Moscow believes that the United States is preventing any dissemination of information from Russia. An attitude deemed unacceptable by Dmitri Peskov, who also acknowledges that his country uses censorship, a measure ” justified ” according to him in ” state of war ” Announcements that say a lot about the state of relations between the two countries. Relations that are at their lowest level since the end of the Cold war.
US measures against Russian media RT
On Wednesday, September 4, the American authorities took a series of measures, notably against executives of the Russian media RT, including its editor-in-chief, Margarita Simonian. A reaction which, according to Washington, is in response to Russian attempts to interfere in the American presidential election in November.
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The announcements came at a time when relations between Russia and the United States are frosty and have only worsened since Russia’s offensive in Ukraine in February 2022. Most American media outlets operating in Russia have reduced their staff or withdrawn their employees from the country since February 2022, facing increasing daily pressure.
A reporter from Wall Street Journal, Evan Gershkovichwas even imprisoned from the end of March 2023, subsequently convicted of “ espionage ” – something he, his employer and Washington have always rejected – before being exchanged with other prisoners August 1st.